Talk:United States v. Winans

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2010-12-23 changes?[edit]

I am trying to repair the vandalism by an IP user which occurred 2010-11-23. It consisted of two edits, a minute apart, which deleted nearly 2K worth of material. No edit summary was provided to explain what this anonymous editor had in mind. No warning was issued to him or her. A few hours later, Cdogsimmons reverted the second of the two edits, but not the first. This left part of the mischief in place, including an odd-looking citation after the first line of the Dissent section.

I am returning the page to where it was after Robert Hiller's 2010-07-08 edit. I am not familiar with the subject of the page and can't comment on its accuracy, or on the relevance of the references which are used to support its information. Please correct any misinformation or wrong citations, but leave an edit summary explaining what you're doing! DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 03:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011-06-25 changes?[edit]

Once again, an IP user has made some changes which were questionable, at best. I probably would have reverted all six of the changes which were made within a few minutes of each other 2011-06-16, but have been away from the internet and didn't have a chance to do so. While some of the changes are merely "questionable", the ones pertaining to the surname of the respondents are way off base, and I am correcting them.

The Winans surname is found throughout American history and has been the subject of much research. According to Alice Winans Egy Woolley's book Winans Family Genealogy, Audobon and Linnaeus Winans were born 1850 and 1851 in Hancock county, Illinois to Edgar William and Elizabeth (Kinney) Winans. Mrs. Woolley's book is available from the LDS church's Family History Library, on microfiche #6088122. It, in turn, is based on the research papers of Major Ira Winans (1839-1931), which fill several large trunks at the Rochester (NY) Public Library.

Although the U. S. Census records frequently contain misspellings of both given names and surnames, the 1910 census clearly lists an Audobon Winans, born July 1850 in Illinois, occupation "lumber man", in Hood River, Wasco county, OR, just two pages away from a Lineus Winans, born Dec 1852 in Illinois, occupation carpenter. These are obviously the Winans (not Winan) brothers who were respondents in the lawsuit.

DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 18:03, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]